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The Burning Soil is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau with Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer
The Burning Soil (1922)
Der Brennende Acker
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Add to a movie listThe Burning Soil (German: Der brennende Acker) is a 1922 German silent film directed by F.W. Murnau. It was made the same year as Murnau's Nosferatu and released in Germany around the same time. The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.
The film was considered lost until 1978, when it was discovered to have been owned by an Italian priest who organized screenings in mental hospitals. A restoration of the film was made with the assistance of French director Eric Rohmer.
Synopsis
“Devil's Field” is a cursed place, that scares the entire population of a small village of Silesia, because an ancestor of the family Rudenburg perished there victim of a mysterious explosion while digging a well in search of a buried treasure. Count von Rudenburg, current title holder, is also searching for the treasure, without result. He lives in his castle with his second wife, Helga, and a daughter from a first marriage, capricious Gerda.Actors
Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer
(Peter Rog)
Vladimir Gajdarov
(Johannes Rog)
Werner Krauss
(Der alte Rog / Old Rog)
Eduard von Winterstein
(Graf Rudenburg / Count Rudenburg)
Lya De Putti
(Gerda, Rudenburgs Tochter / Gerda, Rudenburg's daughter)
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